Guide to the International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), District Council 7 Records

History of International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), District Council 7

The International Union of Electrical Workers District Council No. 7 (I.U.E. District 7) is headquartered at 3461 Office Park Drive, Dayton, Ohio 45419.

The U.E.'s first founding convention was held on March 21-22, 1936. At this time, James B. Carey was unanimously elected President of the U.E. and Julius Emspack, Secretary-Treasurer.

At the National C.I.O. Convention, November 1949, the U.E. was expelled from the C.I.O. for being "Communist-dominated." At this same meeting a successor union with the same jurisdiction was chartered - the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (I.U.E.) James B. Carey, C.I.O. secretary and U.E. president voted out of office in 1941, was installed by Murray as head man of the I.U.E.

I.U.E. District Council 7 is one of 11 districts within the I.U.E. It has jurisdiction over 106 local unions-in a seven state area - Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

Scope and Content

The International Union of Electrical Workers, District Council 7 Records includes Executive Board minutes, District Council minutes and proceedings, Conference Board minutes, and Civil Rights Committee minutes. Also included are financial records, election materials, negotiation records, subject files, and photographs.

The records of this collection are divided into nine series: Constitution, Minutes, Proceedings, Financial Reports, Administrative Functions, General Motors, Chrysler Airtemp, Labor History, and Photographs.

Series One consists of the Constitution and By-Laws, 1951 and 1954.

Series Two, Minutes, contains the subseries of Executive Board Minutes, 1949-66, District Council Minutes, 1950-66, Miscellaneous Conference Board Minutes, 1950-66, and Civil Rights Committee Minutes, 1954-57.

Series Three is Proceedings - the records of the District Council Meetings, 1956-62.

Series Four contains the Financial Reports from 1950-1966.

Series Five is comprised of the Administrative Functions Records. The series is broken down into the subseries of Resolutions and Elections.

Series Six is records concerning General Motors. The series consists of the subseries - Negotiations and Benefits, which includes Guaranteed Annual Wage and Supplemental Unemployment Benefits,and negotiations, 1967, 1970, and 1972. The second subseries is General Information from 1934 to 1974.

Series Seven is Chrysler Airtemp and it consists of general information from 1964.

Series Eight, Labor History, is union history information including newspaper clippings and pamphlets.

Series Nine, Photographs, is pictures of the various locals, union officials, union building, summer institute, Ohio Right to Vote Campaign, Scholarship Grant Program, and the 1948 Univis Lens Strike. Box Seven, File One has pictures of James B. Carey with John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Adlai Stevenson. File four has a photograph of David Fitmaurice with Lyndon B. Johnson. File fourteen, Miscellaneous Photographs, has a picture of Harry S Truman and an autographed picture of the ex-governor of Ohio, John Gilligan. File nineteen contains a picture of Walter Reuther with John F. Kennedy.

Statement of Arrangement

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.

Restrictions on Access

There are no restrictions on accessing materials in this collection.

MS-49 International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), District Council 7 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms49.pdf)

MS-79 International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), Local 755 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms79.pdf)

MS-83 International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), Local 725 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms103.pdf )

MS-99 International Union of Electrical Workers, Local 689 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms99.pdf)

MS-103 International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), Local 725 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms103.pdf )

MS-111 International Union of Electrical Workers, Local 801 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms111.pdf)

MS-114 International Union of Electrical Workers, Local 768 Records (
https://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms114.pdf)

MS-116 International Union of Electrical Workers, District Council 7 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms116.pdf)

MS-127 International Union of Electrical Workers, Amalgamated Local 804 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms127.pdf)

MS-266 International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO, Local 769 Records (
http://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms266.pdf)

Subject Terms

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Preferred Citation

[Box #, Folder #], MS-116, International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), District Council 7 Records, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

Acquisition Information

The records of IUE District Council 7 were accessioned into the Wright State University Archives and Special Collections Department by the Ohio Labor History Project in March of 1981.

Processing Information

Processed by: Harry J. Moore, May 1981

Other Finding Aid

The finding aid is available on the Special Collections & Archives, Wright State University Libraries web site at
https://wright.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/789.